๐ต On stage now: Rares Istoc, Head of Engineering at https://t.co/rOa7NkzIAu, on what happens when your CRM, emails and meeting notes tell different versions of the same story.
His take: donโt hide the disagreement. Keep the context and the evidence visible.
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Take a break at the @EPAMSystems booth!
๐ธ Step into our filter booth and create a fun photo to remember the event.
๐ And donโt miss the 15:30 raffle, where you could walk away with a gaming keyboard!
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๐ต Florian Thรผrk, Sr. Solutions Architect @cloudera examines a Kubernetes platform that appeared ~95% full while actual usage was ~15%. Lower requests helped cut reserved memory by ~55โ60%, with overcommit and SLAs still part of the decision.
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๐ต Lucian Neghina & Oana Berzai from @eSolutionsTech and Dragos Tanta from Tchibo explore the boundary between an #IntegrationPlatform and a #DataPlatform, with lessons on streaming, data contracts, schema evolution and operating integrations at scale. #bdw2026#bdwbucharest
๐ฆ Mircea Rugina, LSEG, takes participants from a flight-data API to a dashboard: Kafka for streaming, PostgreSQL for storage, dbt for transformation, Airflow for orchestration and Superset for visualization - all running locally with Docker. #bigdataweek#bdw2026#bdwbucharest
Have you met the @Zitec team yet? On the main stage, they're joined by Leroy Merlin to talk about building data quality into pipelines, so issues surface before they reach reports or decisions. Worth a listen if reliable data is on your mind.
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๐ต One forecasting model wonโt work equally well for thousands of products. So how do you choose? Coralia Zotic from @EPAMSystems is sharing how competing forecasting methods can support better inventory decisions with fewer stockouts and less excess stock.
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๐ฆ Live data and historical analytics in one lakehouse. In his hands-on workshop, Alex Campos, Senior Solutions Engineer at Ververica, shows how with Flink and Iceberg: ingesting streams, building SQL pipelines, querying fresh and past data.
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๐ต What happens when every new insurance file needs its own script? Andra Bratosin from @endava is sharing how 200+ R scripts became an onboarding bottleneck and how reusable processing, configurable rules and selective AI can offer a better way.
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๐ฆ BigQuery is doing more than running queries in this room. Dorian Hodorogea and Cosmin Pintoiu from @Google are walking participants through managed AI functions, then deploying an agent to do some of the heavy lifting.
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๐ต 100 million payment events a day, aggregated down to about 200,000 records. Ioana Teoc from @Worldpay_UK is sharing how her team runs that on AWS EMR Serverless. No Spark clusters to manage, and most of the code came from on-premises. #bigdataweek#bdw2026#bdwbucharest
๐ฎ @endava brings a playful side to #BDWBucharest! Stop by their booth, test your data intuition, and climb the leaderboard for a chance at todayโs prizes. Come for the game; stay for the conversation about #Data and #AI with the team.
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๐ต Eugene Klyuchnikov explains how @Zalando moved ~100 teams and dozens of pipelines to a new stack in three months, using AI-driven automation and flexible adoption paths. The case reports 52% lower compute costs. #bigdataweek#bdw2026#bdwbucharest
๐ต Charles Aad, Field CTO EMEA, @cloudera opens with the engineering behind production #AI: governed data across hybrid environments and IoT streams moving from edge to core for real-time inference. #bigdataweek#bdw2026#bdwbucharest
Our main stage is open. @Octavian_palade, AI-first organic visibility builder and BDW host is guiding todayโs conversations on the data platforms and engineering choices behind working AI systems. Follow along for notes from the room.
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